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AP Poetry Terms 2

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Allegory Narrative or description having a second meaning
Alliteration Repetition of first consonant sound in a line of poetry
Anaphora Repetition of a phrase; it is a form of parallelism
apostrophe Addressing someone dead, not present, or something inanimate
Assonance Repetition of a vowel sound in a line of poetry
Catalectic A line of verse that ends on an accented syllable when it should naturally end on an unaccented (masculine ending)
End-stop a line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation
Enjambment Continuation of the spoken line from one line of verse to the next; run-on lines
Hyperbole Exaggeration
Hypermetrical A line of poetry that ends with an extra, unaccented syllable (feminine ending)
Metonymy Figure of speech in which an attribute of a thing or something closely related to its is substituted for the thing itself
Onomatopoeia Word that imitates the very sound it is describing, such as buzz, crash, slurp
Oxymoron The combination of contradictory terms, such as jumbo shrimp
Paradox A contradictory statement with an underlying truth
Quatrain Four-line stanza
Refrain Phrase, verse or group of verses repeated at intervals throughout a poem, especially at the end of each stanza
Rhyme The repetition of sounds at the end of the lines of poetry
Rhyme scheme The regular pattern of rhymes at the end of lines of poetry
Synecdoche Figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or vice versa, such as using "building" in place of city
Understatement Saying less than what you really mean
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